Vautour IIN returns for the anniversary of its maiden flight!

October 16, 2023

After WWII ended, France sought to rebuild its air force. In need of an aircraft that could serve in many roles: a multi-purpose bomber, fighter and interceptor, SNCASO took one of their prototypes to fit these requirements. This is where the Vautour was born, taking to the skies on October 16th, 1952!

The Vautour IIN is available for Golden Eagles!

When: From October 16th (12:00 GMT) until October 18th (07:00 GMT).
Where: France > Aviation > Premium vehicles.

About the aircraft

The Vautour IIN is a bomber that is capable of carrying a wide range of ordnance! These range from bombs and unguided rockets to use against ground vehicles, including deadly AS-30 and 20 Nord air-to-ground missiles. Coupled with 4 x 30 mm DEFA cannons as well as AA-20 Nord air-to-air missiles to use against aircraft, the Vautour IIN certainly packs an impressive punch in all roles!

Screenshot Competition - Fall Colors!

October 14, 2023

Welcome to the 89th War Thunder Steam Screenshot Competition!

Make way! Large vehicles incoming! Your screenshots from last week looked great, and we look forward to seeing many more of them in the future! The three most popular and three selected by us will get 300 GE. See the winners down below!

Let’s begin the 89th edition of our competition!

Create a stunning screenshot and submit it on the War Thunder Steam Community Hub with the tag #WTscreen89. You have time until 20.10.2023 to submit your screenshot.

After that date, 6 winners will be selected (3 of which will be the highest rated by the community and 3 selected by our judges), each of which receive a reward of 300GE.

Terms:

<*> Your screenshot must include fall colors - Orange, red, yellow or brown!
<*> You must add the #WTscreen89 tag (title cannot have any other text in it).

Screenshots need to be compliant with the War Thunder rules.
You need to be the author of the screenshot.
Screenshot needs to be new. You cannot use those which have previously been published or used in other competitions.
We will only accept raw screenshots from the game. You cannot use any editing software nor any other visual enhancements (like Nvidia Ansel filters).
You can use filters and settings built into War Thunder.
You can use the replay functionality built into War Thunder.
Rewards will be delivered to the author's account within 14 working days.

And now, time for the winners of the competition’s 88th edition - Heavy Vehicles!

Winners selected via community votes:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048085457
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3049112955
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3047802978

Winners selected by our judges:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3049019820
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3047900430
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048255139

Each winner will get 300GE! Congratulations and see you next week!

Vickers Mk.11: The Wheeled Behemoth

October 13, 2023

The Vickers Mk.11 is a prototype wheeled combat vehicle developed by British company Vickers as part of a private venture in response to an Australian requirement in the 1990s, this vehicle will arrive in the game with the next War Thunder update!

Vickers Mk.11: A Light Tank for Britain at Rank VI!

Features:

Versatile 105 mm cannon.
Laser rangefinder.
Light protection.
Large in size.

Meet the Vickers Mk.11!

The next dev blog season has begun! Coming to War Thunder in the next major update, the Vickers Mk.11 will help to bolster Britain’s ground research tree at rank VI! Highly agile and packing an impressive punch, the Mk.11 will be sure to provide you with an impressive choice for flanking and scouting. Let’s dive into the details of what this vehicle has to offer!

Right off the bat, you may have already noticed something oddly familiar about the Mk.11. Its size? Yes, it’s an absolute unit, but what we mean is its turret! This vehicle inherits its entire turret from the VFM5 light tank which you may already be familiar with, as it’s already in the game. This means that it sports a very-capable 105 mm LRF cannon, featuring excellent ballistic properties and a great rate of fire!

Interesting: The Vickers Mk.11 is big. And we really mean big. To put it into perspective, its height is almost the size of two 6ft people standing on top of each other! So large that it could carry 4 crew and 7 additional crew members. In the game, it will have 4 regular crew members.

Unlike the VFM5, the Mk.11 features a wheeled 6x6 chassis, offering you good mobility. This vehicle can reach speeds of up to 105 km/h on paved surfaces, all while retaining good off-road characteristics apart from in the most difficult terrain types such as deep snow or mud.

The fact that the Mk.11 is based on a modified APC chassis means that it won’t really offer you much protection in your matches. Featuring only lightweight armor, this vehicle will be able to withstand light machine guns and autocannons at a distance. However, dedicated anti-tank weapons will most certainly make short work of its thinly armored hull. Therefore, a smarter tactic would be to make use of its excellent mobility to stay out of sight from any enemies that you may encounter, all while picking off enemies from flank positions!

In your matches: Pro-tips when using the Vickers Mk.11 by Tom (Oxy), WT Community Manager (TL): “As the vehicle is so massive and very lightly armored, it’s important to keep its size in mind while considering your positioning, common defensive spots won’t work too well for it as it’s just so tall. The best strategy will be to focus on its speed, aiming to push aggressively to a good position early on. Fighting like an MBT head-on won’t be too reliable for it — if you can plan your initial route well and get to the side of your enemies, it doesn’t matter how little armor you have (at least for a while!).”

This wheeled behemoth, the Vickers Mk.11, will soon be available at rank VI in the British ground forces research tree when the next major update is released! Make sure that you’re keeping an eye on our website for other exciting dev blogs that we’ll be revealing. Until then, enjoy your matches!

US Navy Birthday: A Decal and the USS Cowell to celebrate!

October 13, 2023

On October 13th 1775, the Continental Fleet was created by the 13 colonies that separated from Great Britain. When it was first created, this fleet consisted of only a few ships that went on to battle with British ships. Today, the US Navy is the world’s largest navy in terms of ships and naval aircraft.

The USS Cowell is available for Golden Eagles!

When: From October 13th (11:00 GMT) until October 16th (07:00 GMT).
Where: USA > Bluewater fleet > Premium vehicles.

About the ship

The USS Cowell is a tier III Destroyer that is armed with 10 x 40 mm Bofors cannons as well as 7 x 20 mm autocannons which are certainly deadly to enemy boats as well as aircraft. The meaty side of this ship though is its 5 x 127mm/38 Mk.12 main caliber guns, capable of striking a devastating blow to enemy boats and destroyers!

Earn the “Famous Ships: USS Missouri” decal!

For this day, you’ll be able to get this decal by completing the below task.

When: From October 13th (11:00 GMT) until October 16th (07:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using US ships to receive the “Famous Ships: USS Missouri” decal!

“Famous Ships: USS Missouri” decal

Additional details:

You must use a minimum of rank III.
Your activity must not be below 70%.
You can complete the task in random battles, except for Enduring Confrontation missions, [Assault] mode and Helicopter PVE battles.
Track your progress in the hangar by clicking Nickname → Achievements → Holidays → US Navy Birthday.
You can find the decal in the “Holidays” tab in the Customisation menu.

It’s Fixed! №82

October 11, 2023

We’re rounding up some of the bugs and issues that we’ve fixed since last week, including some of the bugs that we’ve fixed in today’s update. As always, thank you very much for all of your bug reports!

If you’ve found a bug that you’d like to report, you can do so on our community bug reporting platform. Let’s dive into the details of this article!

Better camera tracking for missiles and bombs

With today’s update, when tracking missiles and bombs through the tracking camera, the camera better directs at the target, making it easier to see where your fired ordnance is going. Thanks to this change, you’ll be able to more easily see the flight trajectory of the missile or bomb that you launched!

Improvements to traction for wheeled vehicles

Today, we’ve also improved the traction of wheeled vehicles when driving over terrain that doesn’t have mud or grass. It’ll now feel better to drive over these types of terrain — wheeled vehicles will pick up speed faster, and will be easier to control!

Tracking camouflage progress made easier

It’s now more convenient for you to track the progress of camouflages! Last week, in a vehicle’s modification window next to the Talisman box, there’s a camouflage box that shows progress towards the current camouflage. From here, you can click on this box which will then bring you to the regular camouflage customization area, so you can check out all other camouflages for a vehicle as normal!

Fixed aircraft visibility in front of clouds

Last week, we fixed a graphic issue related to clouds and aircraft. What happened was, aircraft flickered when they were in front of the backdrop of clouds at medium and longer distances. This issue made aircraft difficult to spot and overall was quite annoying. We discovered what was causing this, so this issue won’t be happening anymore.

There’s a lot more!

You’ll be able to see the full list of bug fixes and improvements that we’ve made recently below.

Here’s a quick summary of some other fixes in the past 2 weeks: Vehicle stat card photos have been improved and several maps and missions have been given different aircraft sizes depending on the Battle Rating of the match. Check out the rest!

Update 2.29.0.94

October 11, 2023

Aviation

Now, when tracking missiles and bombs through the tracking camera, the camera is better directed at the target, making it easier to see where your fired ordnance is going.
AV-8B Plus — radar operation page has been added to MFD mode. (Report)
Jaguar GR.1, Jaguar GR.1A, Jaguar E — separate bomb drop sequences have been added. (Report)
Fw 190 D-13 — a bug that caused the cannon in the engine to show a 30 mm Mk 108 cannon in x-ray mode instead of a 20 mm MG 151 cannon has been fixed. (Report)
Be-6 — a bug that caused flaps in the landing position to clip through the torpedo has been fixed. (Report)
Sea Hawk FGA.6 — a bug that caused the 4th pylon ordnance on the left wing to be floating instead of attached has been fixed. (Report)
FZ49 HEAT rockets — the dense smoke plume from these rockets has been fixed.
A bug that caused anti-aircraft weapons at bombing bases to not attack aircraft that had bombs and air-to-ground missiles has been fixed.
F-100F (China) — an additional camouflage has been added, which can be obtained by completing a task or by purchasing with Golden Eagles.

Locations

The traction of soil without dirt or grass has been changed to help with the problem of poorer mobility for wheeled vehicles driving on this soil.

Naval Vehicles

A bug when reloading torpedoes caused the “Torpedo tube aim in a dead zone” message to display when trying to launch them has been fixed.

Interface

A bug that caused the Protection Analysis to display an incorrect threat despite saving a different country and rank choice has been fixed.
Begleitpanzer 57 — a bug that caused the incorrect amount of ammo to show in the status indicator for remaining first-stage ammunition has been fixed.

Other fixes

A bug that could cause the game to crash when viewing a helicopter in battle replays has been fixed.
A bug that caused the game to slow down when leaving a battle replay after putting the replay in less than 1x playback speed has been fixed.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

Update 2.29.0.91

October 9, 2023

A bug where items in the Tokushu Heiki Workshop window did not update after interacting with them has been fixed.
A bug where modifications still displayed as unresearched even after buying them with Golden Eagles has been fixed.
An issue where the “Custom localization enabled” message was overlapping research window tabs has been fixed.
A bug that caused Silver Lion and Research Point rewards to display to the right of the battle results window for Ground Assault matches has been fixed.
A bug that caused camouflage progress to display incorrectly in the camouflage customization window has been fixed.

Battle of the Caucasus: A Decal and Decoration for the 80th Anniversary!

October 9, 2023

From the summer of 1942, determined Axis forces launched an offensive into the Caucasus region in a bid to capture key locations. In 2 months, they managed to advance to Mozdok, but then hit a barrier — they were stopped from advancing further by the Soviets. From the beginning of 1943, Soviet troops squeezed out Axis forces from many occupied locations. Then, by October 9th 1943, all Axis troops were evacuated from the region, therefore full control of these locations were returned to the Soviets.

The KV-1E and IL-2M “Avenger” are available for Golden Eagles!

When: From October 9th (14:00 GMT) until October 12th (14:00 GMT).
Where: USSR research tree > Army / Aviation > Premium vehicles.